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dissolute

/ˈdɪsəljuːt/

dissolute adjective: unrestrained by morality.

Adjective

dissolute (comparative more dissolute, superlative most dissolute)

  1. Unrestrained by morality.
  2. Recklessly abandoned to sensual pleasures.
    • Allwhite is dominated, of course, by its white characters: the high-school mean girls Meagan, Maegan and Megan (abused, bulimic, druggy), their mothers (smothering, manipulative, viperish) and their boyfriends (psychotic, supportive, dissolute).2023 October 4, Jesse Green, “Review: ‘White Girl in Danger’ Flips the Script on Soap Operas”, in The New York Times

Noun

dissolute (plural dissolutes)

  1. An immoral person devoted to sensual pleasures.
    • [H]e illustrated the hypocrisy of his party; and was often known to exercise his talent of drinking a company of dissolutes under the table.1879, The Quarterly Review, volume 148, page 263

dissolute meaning in Malayalam and Kannada

dissolute in Malayalam

ദുർന്നടപ്പുളള, തെമ്മാടിയായ, വിഷയാസക്തമായ, നിയന്ത്രണമില്ലാത്ത

dissolute in Kannada

ತಲೆಹೋಕ, ನೀತಿಗೆಟ್ಟ, ಹದಗೆಟ್ಟ, ಲಂಪಟತನದ, ಅನೀತಿಯುತ

Synonyms of dissolute

All synonyms of dissolute

Forms of dissolute

Adjective
comparativemore dissolute
superlativemost dissolute
Noun
pluraldissolutes

Origin of dissolute

From Middle English dissolute, from Latin dissolutus.

Words formed from dissolute

Questions about dissolute

What does dissolute mean?
Dissolute means unrestrained by morality.
What is dissolute in Malayalam?
Dissolute in Malayalam is ദുർന്നടപ്പുളള, തെമ്മാടിയായ, വിഷയാസക്തമായ. See Dissolute meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is dissolute?
Dissolute can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce dissolute?
Dissolute is pronounced /ˈdɪsəljuːt/ (UK).

Words near dissolute in the dictionary

  1. dissogony
  2. dissolubilities
  3. dissolubility
  4. dissoluble
  5. dissolubleness
  6. dissolute
  7. dissolutely
  8. dissoluteness
  9. dissolutenesses
  10. dissolutes
  11. dissolution

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dissolute (page history and authors); dissolute (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); dissolute (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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